Papua New Guinea

  • Governor General:Bob Dadae
  • Prime Minister:James Marape
  • Capital city:Port Moresby
  • Languages:Tok Pisin (official), English (official), Hiri Motu (official), some 836 indigenous languages spoken (about 12% of the world's total); most languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers note: Tok Pisin, a creole language, is widely used and understood; English is spoken by 1%-2%; Hiri Motu is spoken by less than 2%
  • Government:No data
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:1,06,69,942 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:4,52,860
  • GDP per capita, US$:2,958 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:30.7 (2023)
  • GINI index:41.9 (2009)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:120

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    • मार्च 2024
      Source: United Nations Development Programme
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      Accessed On: 10 अप्रैल, 2024
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      Data Cited at: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Human Development Data Center The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.
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    • जुलाई 2025
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 28 जुलाई, 2025
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      The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The Poverty data are now expressed in 2017 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) prices, versus 2011 PPP in previous editions. The new global poverty lines of $2.15, $3.65, and $6.85 reflect the typical national poverty lines of low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries in 2017 prices.